Respiratory Infections News

Adjusting for under-reporting, researchers estimated that approximately 14% of Americans had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by mid-November, suggesting the burden is much larger than the reported case count, they said.

Infected mothers appear to be “unlikely” to spread SARS-CoV-2 to newborns while rooming-in, Italian researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

During a recent WHO briefing, David L. Heymann, MD, chair of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards, said vaccines and good public health practice will help the world “learn to live with COVID-19.”

Regeneron’s antibody cocktail reduced viral load in patients with COVID-19, according to preliminary findings from a small study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Implementing a CDC framework for outpatient stewardship reduced hospitalizations and antibiotic prescribing for uncomplicated acute upper respiratory tract infections at 10 sites, according to a recent study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

CDC researchers estimated that the average school district would need to invest between $55 and $442 per student to safely return to in-person learning, according to a report published in MMWR.

Around 17% of air samples taken close to patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 RNA, although the viruses were rarely viable, according to findings from a systematic review published in JAMA.

A variant strain of COVID-19 first reported in the United Kingdom has been identified in a Colorado man in his 20s, Gov. Jared Polis announced.

The United Kingdom became the first nation to approve the COVID-19 vaccine codeveloped by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.

As of Dec. 24, 2 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 — an increase of 1 million just since Nov. 12, according to an AAP count.